am I getting too old?

Rating: 6/10 (15 July 2013)

Maybe I am getting too old. This is absolute drivel. Had so many Hollywood movie clichés I was cringing through out the whole film. I would love to go into depth about what I mean but it gives away pretty much everything that happens in the film but if you have seen top gun its pretty much that. Also it has one of the biggest movie plot flaws right at the end of the film that I just cant get out of my mind. Hollywood also tends to either make a brit in the film a villain or a complete cretin. Point and case in the form of Burn Goman. He was great in Torchwood but in this he was a dithering fool that I can only assume was put in there as comic relief that never worked.
Idris Elba though was the stand out performance for me with an outstanding scene were he put down the hero so it wasn't all bad. The fight scenes were also pretty good and not as much as a mess as the transformer films were you cant tell whats going on as one robot melds into another. There was none of that here. It was good old mech on Japanese creature porn. So if they release it on DVD just edited down to the fight scenes id buy it. but leave in the story which is just top gun sci fied up a bit and the terrible acting I wont be sad if every copy is burnt in a fiery blaze by Godzilla's cousin.